Qualcomm will reportedly continue helping Huawei to skirt US sanctions with 5G-less chips

A tipster claims that Qualcomm will offer more 5G-less versions of its chips that enable Huawei to skirt US sanctions. Huawei is among the Chinese companies sanctioned by the US. The sanctions predominately stop Huawei from accessing American products relating to 5G and limit the company’s ability to make its own Kirin silicon. Qualcomm’s latest…

Are Software Engineers Burned Out?

Peggy and Junade Ali, consultant, Haystack Analytics, talk about road traffic safety and the potential burnout of software engineers. He shares his journey with road traffic sensor networks and behavioral interventions for drivers—and how he built an engineering team. Below is an excerpt from the interview. To hear the entire interview on The Peggy Smedley…

The Best Games to Benchmark your PC in 2021

If you want to test your computer’s gaming performance, you need to use one of the best games to benchmark your PC. A lot of games don’t provide consistent, reliable results, and others could provide a skewed view of how your hardware stacks up. We rounded up 10 titles that are consistent, repeatable, and clearly…